Chapter 43 uses phrases like "good husband" and "virtuous wife" to describe those who are willing to take the bait...
Jiang Fuhuai began to suspect that Jiang Xiliu and Jin Zhao were conspiring to play a trick on him.
He didn't consider himself the kind of rigid and conservative father. In matters concerning his daughter, he was always tolerant of Jiang Xiliu to the point of indulgence.
Jiang Xiliu can be casual about keeping sugar daddies and dating, since breaking up isn't a big deal anyway.
She dared to be so casual about getting married and registering her marriage!
Jiang Fuhuai restrained his emotions, looked at Jin Zhao who was speechless with shock, and said in a calm tone, "Xiao Jin, could you please go out for a walk by yourself? I need to talk to Xi Liu for a few minutes."
"Okay." Jin Zhao snapped out of his reverie, secretly glancing at the young lady sleeping so sweetly and adorably on his hospital bed, and felt a strange pang of tenderness in his heart.
He quietly withdrew his gaze, stood up, and, leaning on his cane, slowly but steadily walked towards the door.
After Jin Zhao closed the door, Jiang Fuhuai waited a few more minutes before nudging his daughter's arm.
Jiang Xiliu thought it was the audacious Jin Zhao, so she closed her eyes and slapped him across the face: "Get out."
Jiang Fuhuai took a deep breath, then another.
He kept repeating in his heart: biological child, biological child, biological child...
"Jiang Xiliu!"
Jiang Xiliu was startled and trembled. She opened her eyes abruptly and saw her father standing by the bed with a serious expression.
That was terrifying! She'll need the rest of the day to heal from that sound!
"Dad! Why are you standing here scaring me? I'm going to tell Mom!"
The wicked person files a lawsuit first.
Jiang Fuhuai said with a stern face, "I'm asking you, did you say you were going to get your marriage certificate with Jin Zhao the month after next?"
“Yes.” Jiang Xiliu felt completely bewildered. She rubbed her eyes and sat up. “Didn’t I just tell you? Have you already forgotten? Dad, could this be a sign of Alzheimer’s?”
Jiang Fuhuai: "...You said you and Jin Zhao got your marriage certificate! Then let me ask you, does Jin Zhao know about this?"
Jiang Xiliu tilted her head back and said confidently, "It's fine to tell him the day before we get the marriage certificate. Anyway, he's not old enough yet. Dad, why are you in such a hurry?"
Why is he in such a hurry?
Jiang Fuhuai moved his lips, but found himself unable to refute it.
It had been so long since anyone had teased him, and now, after being silenced by Jiang Xiliu's words, he felt dizzy and saw stars. He quickly grabbed the bedside table to steady himself.
Suddenly, a capable female voice came from outside the door.
"Patient in room 83? What are you doing here? You know you can't stand for long, right? Go back to your bed right now."
Before the words were finished, the ward door was pushed open.
Jin Zhao, standing at the door, looked extremely embarrassed. The nurse standing next to him was in her early thirties, with a brand-new name tag on her chest. She had recently been promoted to this ward and did not recognize Jiang Xiliu or Jiang Fuhuai.
When the nurse saw that the hospital bed in the room was occupied, she immediately frowned and said in a clearly reproachful tone, "Are you two family members of the patient? How can you do this? You've taken up the patient's bed and then kicked the patient out to stand?"
"No, you've misunderstood," Jin Zhao tried to explain. "I just wanted to go out for a walk and get some fresh air, I wasn't kicked out..."
"Even breathing is not allowed." The nurse was very responsible. "You must cooperate with the doctor's treatment and cannot run around on your own."
After saying that, she looked at Jiang Xiliu and said, "Come on, this family member, get up first and make room for the patient."
Jiang Fuhuai and Jiang Xiliu, both concerned about their image, one nimbly got out of bed, while the other pretended to help Jin Zhao: "Little Jin, why didn't you tell us you were going out for some fresh air? We thought you weren't here."
Jiang Xiliu chimed in, "That's right. I saw you went out and hadn't come back, so I just lay down for a bit to rest. Come on, lie down quickly."
The unfamiliar nurse finally shifted her questioning gaze from the two men to the "disobedient" patient, saying, "If you want to recover soon, you have to listen to the doctor. Young man, don't think you can run around just because you're okay. You have to wait for the doctor to assess you and say you're fine before you can go out."
...
Although the father and daughter arrived in the same car, Jiang Xiliu has had four bodyguards by her side ever since the kidnapping incident.
Therefore, they need to drive at least two cars when they go out.
Jiang Fuhuai returned to the company in the same car, continuing to oversee the overall situation; Jiang Xiliu got into the bodyguard's car and went home to rest.
The father and daughter's conversation was not over yet, but Jiang Fuhuai, in order to live a few more years, no longer wanted to communicate with his daughter alone.
He wants to hold a family meeting!
But before the family meeting, he had several other meetings waiting for him at the company.
Jiang Xiliu still didn't take the marriage to heart, but Jin Zhao, after hearing Jiang Fuhuai mention it once, started sending her messages.
"Uncle Jiang, what do you mean? Are you going to marry me? Are you joking or serious?"
...
"I'm willing."
...
"However, the gap between us is too big. Have you considered these practical issues?"
Jin Zhao sent a bunch of messages, but Jiang Xiliu didn't read a single one.
As long as she can keep her finances separate from Jin Zhao's, Jiang Xiliu doesn't care about getting married.
The reason she is so resentful and strongly disagrees with the original plot is largely because Jin Zhao took half of the Jiang family's assets.
After carefully studying the plot given by the "0 IQ" system 0777, Jiang Xiliu realized that marriage would not only not bind her, but would become an excellent tool to restrain Jin Zhao.
She won't kidnap Jin Zhao and force him into marriage like in the original story, then imprison him in the house after the marriage, completely offending this chosen one.
She would only gently use titles like "good husband" and "virtuous wife" to keep him confined at home.
As for his desire to go out and work?
As long as Jin Zhao dares to look for work in this city, she is confident that no company will dare to hire him.
Jiang Xiliu asked, "System 0777, plot completion report." She wasn't using her full name, so the system, which seemed to have been formatted, didn't respond at all.
[System 0777: 21%]
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Jiang Fuhuai is working overtime tonight.
Xi Zhen and Jiang Xiliu ate dinner together.
After the mother and daughter finished eating, Jiang Fuhuai entered the door looking tired and haggard.
Xi Zhen was quite surprised: "Has something happened at the company that you can't solve recently? You look terrible today."
"It's not a company matter." Jiang Fuhuai looked around to make sure only his aunt and wife were there before he began to complain, "It's because of my daughter. I get a headache just thinking about her wedding."
Xi Zhen chuckled and said, "What's there to be angry about? Isn't marriage all about impulse?"
“We can’t be so casual about it.” Jiang Fuhuai is quite traditional when it comes to marriage. “This isn’t a game.”
Xi Zhen didn't even ask her daughter about it at the dinner table today: "So what?"
She spoke slowly and deliberately: "So what if she treats this like a game? It's not like we can't cover for her. You're overthinking it."
Jiang Fuhuai was miraculously comforted by Xi Zhen's words: "You're right."
"About what?" Jiang Xiliu peered down from the second floor. "Dad, are you going to have another family meeting?"
She had never driven anything like this before, and she was quite excited.
Jiang Fuhuai looked up at the second floor, and his head began to throb again.
"I'm not going to open it! Go to sleep!"
"Ugh, I'm not sleepy." Jiang Xiliu blinked. "I'm so bored, let's go, Dad."
Xi Zhen suddenly remembered something and looked at her daughter on the second floor: "Xi Liu, have you been staying at home for too long lately and are you bored?"
Jiang Xiliu:? ? ?
How can you say that?
Isn't it because they don't feel comfortable letting her go out alone that she stays at home with them?
"Mom, no, I'm so happy to see you all at home." Jiang Xiliu stomped downstairs, pushed past her father who was standing awkwardly next to her mother, and hugged Xi Zhen's arm. "Mom, do you find me annoying?"
"How could that be?" Xi Zhen patted Jiang Xiliu's arm. "The youngest member of the Shen family is about to come of age, and his coming-of-age ceremony is being held at our hotel. We've received an invitation, and Mom just wanted to ask if you'd like to come and have some fun?"
Previously, the relationship between the two families had become somewhat strained due to Jiang Xiliu and Shen Yu's breakup.
However, after Shen Yu went abroad, the elders of both families gradually began to interact.
The fact that the Shen family held a banquet at their hotel this year is also a gesture of goodwill.
Jiang Xiliu thought for a moment: "The younger one in the Shen family? The one born to Shen Yu's stepmother? What was her name again? Shen..."
"Shen Xiu," Xi Zhen pointed at her, "Don't go around calling her that in front of him, like she's born to a stepmother. Do you think Shen Yu would accept her as his stepmother?"
Shen Xiu's mother is Shen Yu's aunt. After Shen Xiu's mother married into the Shen family, Shen Yu drove everyone else out of the Shen family's old house and lived alone. It wasn't until Shen Yu went abroad that his father moved back into the old house with his youngest son and wife.
Although Shen Xiu was born in wedlock, Shen Yu was too forceful. Before his father remarried, he bypassed his father and obtained most of the company's shares through his grandfather.
It can be said that no matter how outstanding Shen Xiu is, he can never surpass his older brother.
Jiang Xiliu curled her lip, unconvinced: "Shen Yu doesn't acknowledge it, so I'm even more determined to call him that."
"Do you want to go?" Xi Zhen was just trying to amuse Jiang Xiliu. "If you don't want to go, that's fine. If you do want to go, then go and have some fun. It'll save you from getting bored at home."
“Going is fine.” Jiang Xiliu blinked her almond-shaped eyes. “Can I bring Jin Zhao with me?”
Xi Zhen: "...I heard from your dad that he's still limping. His leg won't be better in another week, will it?"
Jiang Fuhuai pulled away his daughter, who was clinging to his wife, and said, "Didn't you hear what the nurse said today? His legs are so bad he can't even stand for long."
"Isn't there an electric wheelchair? Let him use that." Jiang Xiliu sighed to herself, "I don't even mind that he's embarrassing me like this, shouldn't you be proud of your daughter?"
Xi Zhen and Jiang Fuhuai exchanged a glance.
"Mom is definitely proud of you." Xi Zhen patted her daughter's hair. "But why did you bring him there?"
Jiang Xiliu smiled brightly: "Let him familiarize himself with the future 'business' in advance."
“I’m very traditional and I can’t really accept him going out to work. So after we get married, it would be best if he stayed at home and took care of me.”
"The only time I need to take him out is when I attend various banquets. When he accompanies me as my husband, he inevitably needs to understand the basic situation in the industry."
“I think this is a great learning opportunity,” Jiang Xiliu said. “Even if he messes up this time, it’s okay.”
Their attendance was out of respect for Shen Xiu.
Xi Zhen was particularly pleased to see that Jiang Xiliu had such a well-thought-out plan for his marriage.
She never thought her daughter was playing around; on the contrary, she felt that her daughter was very clear-headed.
“Since you’ve made up your mind, then go ahead and take him with you,” Xi Zhen said. “But before you two get married and register your marriage, you still need to bring him home to meet us.”
Jiang Xiliu nodded: "Okay, no problem."
Jiang Fuhuai looked at the mother and daughter who were discussing things amicably, and after a long while, he finally managed to ask, "Does Xiao Jin know?"
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Author's Note: Xiao Jin: I don't know. (Sorry it's too late today, this chapter will feature a rain of red envelopes.)
Marriage is just a sweet deception.
It looks delicious, but it tastes bitter. Upon closer inspection, you'll find that the core is even rotten.
But I still think Xiao Jin is the happiest, at least the young lady is willing to create a deception for him.
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